Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Before we get going on today’s mailbag, I have to note the name length of our first questioner, who took it upon himself […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 7
10 Dec 2018
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Weekly Sage #5: Tacitus
30 Nov 2018
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Tacitus – “My policy is to trace proposals in detail only if conspicuously honorable or of noteworthy disgrace, for in my view the principle obligation of histories […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 4
19 Nov 2018
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Before we get going, I should make mention of Dr. Smith’s recently published “Zounds!” article, seeing as it evoked violent full-body convulsions from […]
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Weekly Sage #4: Wilhelm Ropke
16 Nov 2018
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Wilhelm Ropke – “Economic integration – a network consisting of the division of labor, the mutual exchange of products and the specialization of production, coupled with the […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 3
12 Nov 2018
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. My guess is that everyone is a little angsty after the midterms, seeing as no one really got the result they wanted. But, […]
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The Redemption of Galadriel
08 Nov 2018
One of the most impressive elements of the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien is its depth. One walks upon the fields of Middle-earth with the awareness that you are treading ancient paths. Indications that this world was in existence long before you discovered it are everywhere: ruined watchtowers of fallen realms, tombs of bygone kings, snippets […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 2
05 Nov 2018
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. I have to begin this week’s mailbag by noting that there seems to a state of flux surrounding the official description of this […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 1
29 Oct 2018
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Well, I feel honored to christen the Bereans Mailbag and send it off on its maiden voyage to explore the deep recesses of […]
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God’s Whispers in The Wind in the Willows
24 Oct 2018
“All great stories are about longing,” a friend recently said to me. I immediately thought of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, the classic book about the adventures of four animal friends: Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad. Grahame’s tale is beautifully wrought, not only in richness of language, but in calling forth what […]
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I heard this yesterday on Al Mohler’s The Briefing, and found it today in the young lady’s own words over on The Gospel Coalition. This is a profile not only in courage to confront evil, but a boldness to speak of the beauty of the gospel to her abuser. This is a must watch, as […]